Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pretty as a flower > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:43 AM, Bernard Quinn <bjq1 at mac.com> wrote: > > > This is a picture of my friend John Lemoine. He is an extremely talented > > violin maker who lives in Washington, DC. That is my cello he is working > > on. It is over three hundred years old. It was made in the Austrian Alps > > and it has a wonderful deep, dark, mellow tone. > > > > When you acquire an instrument like this it is made clear to you in a > > hundred different ways that you are not its owner, you are its custodian. > > Your job, along with playing it, is to make sure that it is preserved and > > maintained so that it can be handed off to the next generation to play > and > > care for. > > > > I am the care giver for a special needs cello. Many years ago John found > > an antique cello case in the garbage in New York. He fished it out, > opened > > it, and found the abused and broken last mortal remains of my cello. He > > knew exactly what he was looking at. He took the pieces home and spent > the > > next two or three years restoring it. My wife?s health problems and my > back > > issues have kept me from playing recently. But now that I am retired and > > doing better I am going to give going back to it a try. > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/John+Lemoine.jpg.html < > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/John+Lemoine.jpg.html> > > > > Comments and Criticisms Welcome! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Barney > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA